tonymet

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by tonymet 8mo ago
they have a lot of options for sales. they can sell their service and run a not-for-profit enterprise. surviving on online donations is extremely rare. In their case, they are not getting that many impressions, so $1-$5 donations won'
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by tonymet 8mo ago
This can have pros and cons. They will get much more vcpu / dollar on bare metal. And they can develop great operational discipline if they do it right. On the downside, I don’t see them yet taking ops seriously. They are getting a
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by tonymet 8mo ago
More power to them. But donations can’t possibly scale to the demand. They are already having significant capacity issues as evidenced to response time spikes throughout the week. It’s a great hobby app, and the forgejo software seems wel
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by tonymet 8mo ago
Starting a migration is a lot easier than completing one.
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by tonymet 8mo ago
I agree the Economist may still be the best major finance / news publication. I trust it over nearly all the others though it’s gone downhill since McElthwaite left for Bloomberg
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by tonymet 8mo ago
They are killing off their last and best generation of men, so yes the economy will suffer. I'm not questioning that part -- it's the repeated "russia will collapse any minute" propaganda, going on for 12+ years, that i
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by tonymet 8mo ago
if they published anything for clicks they would have immediately published the Hunter Biden laptop story. The most salacious click-baity story in 20+ years and it was shelved. There's more to influence than "money"
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by tonymet 8mo ago
I would call this a very cynical and pessimistic assessment of journalism. It holds them to the lowest possible quality standard.
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by tonymet 8mo ago
I'm guessing you mean the publications. Certainly not me.
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by tonymet 8mo ago
i recommend writing prompts for Gemini / ChatGPT along the lines of "as a history professor put X in perspective. Compare the evidence for / against. Be sure to include grounding on each fact ..."
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by tonymet 8mo ago
i googled it
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by tonymet 8mo ago
it took me 5 seconds to google this
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by tonymet 8mo ago
Déjà vu … Since Crimea Invasion Russia’s Economy Is On the Brink of Collapse" – CNN Business, December 2014. "The End of the Putin Era? Russia’s Economy Is Tanking" – Newsweek, December 2014. "Russia Heading for Economic
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by tonymet 8mo ago
more relevant but less attributed.
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by tonymet 8mo ago
i agree it's really cynical about the contributors. Instead of being positive about the tremendous contribution to knowledge, it's resentful that the contributors weren't "diverse" enough
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Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by tonymet 8mo ago|5 comments
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by tonymet 8mo ago
The surveillance protects the regime, which mostly involves the US Federal government. Street crime, unless it’s organized by Cartels, is not a political threat. You can see the counter example during the 40s-70s when the FBI targeted the
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by tonymet 8mo ago
It’s baffling and makes you wonder about the strategic mission of the surveillance state. Surely they must be achieving some objectives – since they are heavily resourced, and capable. If not crime prevention, it must be political influenc
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by tonymet 8mo ago
Nearly all of the Windows hate i see comes from 20 year old takes . ( the bing/cortana / copilot / ads slop criticism is warranted, but is also easily disabled).
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by tonymet 9mo ago
The Password Autofill features are all premature and broken. In Safari & Apps, the autofill prompt doesn't show, or it will show once and never again. Manual autofill trigger fails, and negotiating autofill providers is premature
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by tonymet 9mo ago
PB 34 skips!
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by tonymet 9mo ago
The hosting provider is actually Clover POS and they are using this game to train their AI on which dark patterns yield the highest fee collections for Clover /jk
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by tonymet 9mo ago
shady!
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by tonymet 9mo ago
The darkest patterns are fees that don’t exist . Like 300% tax fees and nightly parking when parking is free
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by tonymet 9mo ago
not sure why this has been downvoted. The real answer is "nothing is".
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by tonymet 9mo ago
tear apart even the most primitive device with a plastic shell, lcd , pcb and power supply . None of those separate components are easily "recycled" . The concept that materials are Recyclable by default is just a myth. It'
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by tonymet 9mo ago
The concept of Recycling ( nearly all the materials can be reused with little cost or impact) is a myth. There are relatively few consumer products or materials that are readily recycled. It's not so much that electronics are unrecycl
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by tonymet 9mo ago
Perhaps detractors just gave up and didn't bother improving, but I'm able to prompt the AI to write excellent code. And it's very easy to correct when it's gone awry . This idea that all AI code is bad is just the ego
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by tonymet 9mo ago
humans are distinguished from the lower primates by the use of tools.
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by tonymet 9mo ago
I have the opposite take. There’s nothing stopping you from jumping into any component to polish things up. You can code whatever you wish. And AI takes away nearly all of the drudgery : boilerplate, test cases, inspecting poor documentat

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